--- title: XVII. a Lesson For Kings. — Indian Fairy Tales · full text with trees description: XVII. a Lesson For Kings., «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: _Source. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/48/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Indian Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/) / XVII. a Lesson For Kings. # XVII. a Lesson For Kings. XVII. a Lesson For Kings. of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 7 sentences and 57 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/48/1/) — \_Source. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/48/2/) — \_--\_Rajovada Jataka\_, Fausböll, No. 151, tr. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/48/3/) — Rhys-Davids, pp. xxii.-vi. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/48/4/) — \_Remarks. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/48/5/) — \_--This is one of the earliest of moral allegories in existence. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/48/6/) — The moralising tone of the Jatakas must be conspicuous to all reading them. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/48/7/) — Why, they can moralise even the Tar Baby (see \_infra\_, Note on "Demon with the Matted Hair," No. xxv.). - ← previous: [XVI. the Son of Seven Queens.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/47/) - next →: [XVIII. Pride Goeth Before a Fall.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/49/) - ↑ back to [Indian Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/)